From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-08-18T11:45:26+09:00
Subject: Re: 8086 simulator in ruby


On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Phlip wrote:

> Robert Klemme wrote:
>
>> CPU8086 do
>>    label :begin
>>      push 42
>>      shift :b
>>      jmp :begin
>> end
>
> How you get a class name to respond to do? I thought objects couldn't
> respond to do, essentially at the syntax level...
>
> (Or is that pseudo?)
>

Nah, it's just a normal block of Ruby!
With an iterator, you might do:

10.times do
    puts 'hello'
end

In this case, 10 is not really any different than CPU8086.
Think of do-end as a block that iterates 1 time. That's what it is!